Most people tend to dismiss what they’re good at. Part of it is that you become so accustomed to having whatever skill you have that you cease to notice it. Sometimes it is out of a sense of false humility. But you, like every single person has innate talents and gifts that enrich people’s lives—AND these gifts can provide a source of income for you.

How can you discover what your true talents are? Let me give you a hint. Where your passion is, you will find many of your natural abilities that you probably take for granted. When you turn your passion into a definable business curriculum, you can sell your knowledge for more money.

But it’s more than passion. It’s profit. Thousands of people have harnessed the unbelievable power of their natural talents to not only enrich others, but literally enrich themselves financially.

Here are some questions to consider. Answer these and you will have the core for a profitable business.

1. Define your ideal client.
2. If you are already in business, who are your ideal clients? What have you liked or disliked about them? Do you see any common denominators?
3. Who would benefit from what you know?
4. If you had all the money in the world, what would you be doing?
5. Connect with people you admire and respect and ask them what they see you doing? What are your strengths from their standpoint?
6. What have you always been good at?
7. What did you dream of doing as a child?
8. What needs/values do you care about most?
9. Whom do you admire most?
10. What makes you most fulfilled?
11. What do you love to do the most? What are you passionately against?
12. What have you felt called to do?
13. What do you want your children and grandchildren to remember you for? What do you want to be remembered for most?
14. Analyze your ‘competition’ and find out all about them. This will give you ideas as to your niche and how you can brand yourself.
15. Make sure your target group has money to spend.

In doing the above, you will gain a much better grasp at the gap(s) that exist in the market place and you will gain a competitive advantage as you seek to fill this gap. When you successfully fill the gap, you will move your target market to action.

Put these exercises to work for you and enrich your life and your pocketbook.